Paper towel for toilet purposes.



P. D. PARSONS.

PAPER TOWEL FOR TOILET PURPOSES. APPLICATION FILED MAR 27. 19l5.

Patented Nov. 2, 1915.

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PHILIP 1D. PARSONS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR T0 SCOTT PAPER COMPANY, A CORPORATIONOF PENNSYLVANIA.

PAPER TOWEL FOR TOILET PURPOSES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

. Patented Nov. 2, 1915.

Application filed March 27,1915. Serial No. 17,411.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, PHILIP D. PARSONS, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Philadelphia, county of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented an Improvement in Paper Towels for Toilet Purposes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to paper towels for toilet purposes and has for an object to provide folded paper towels which, when assembled in package form, shall be compact and suitable for use within a serving cabinet in such manner that individual towels may be successively withdrawn from the package as desired.

More particularly, the object is to provide a package of paper towels, each of which is so folded and arranged as to provide a plurality of positive and effective folded parts or means to be engaged by a discharging blade operatively mounted upon the cabinet, whereby manipulation of the said blade causes one of said folded parts or means to be readily engaged and pushed through the v discharge opening of the cabinet where it may be grasped and the towel withdrawn without objectionably disturbing the re-v mainder of the towels within the cabinet.

More specifically stated, the folded towel sheets may be considered as having a body part formed by folding the sheet in such a manner as to provide a multiple ply thickness, two opposite end portions of which are folded over the body part in a direction toward each other and these folded end parts in turn being reversely folded upon themselves to form a tab at each end of the sheet and extending substantially the length thereof, which multi-ply tabs" provide closed end portions so arranged as to be adapted for engagement by the discharging blade.

With the above and other objects in view, the nature of which will be more fully understood from the description hereinafter, the invention consists in the novelconstruction of paper towels as hereinafter more a similar elevation of a package formed in accordance with a modification of my invention; Fig. 4 represents a perspective of a portion of one of the towel sheets.

1 designates a preferred type-of cabinet for use with the towels of my invention and has its lower part provided wtih a transverse slot 2 through which the towel tab or means to be engaged by the discharging blade 3 may be projected. The blade'3 may be of any desired form but as here shown it is pivoted and arranged to be reciprocated by the lever 4. The cabinet may also have the shelf or shoulder 5 at the side opposite the blade for supporting the package of towels at one side and, if desired, the opposite or blade side of the cabinet may be similarly provided with a support 6.

Referring more particularly to the folded sheet shown in Fig. 4, 7 designates the body part of the sheet "which is formed by folding the sheet in the middle to provide a two-ply body structure, which is subsequently folded in the special form now to be described. It is manifest that whether the sheet, per se, is single ply or multi-ply is a matter or secondary consideration, though this is the preferred form. Considering the sheet without regard to whether it is single or multi-ply, it is first folded on lines 8 and 9 parallel to two opposite side edges of the sheet and parallel to each other, thereby forming two tab parts extending toward each otherand over the body part between the folds and each of which tabs is again folded as indicated at 10 and llrespectively, along lines parallel to the folds 8 and 9 to provide tab be noted that the folds 10 and 11 are so made that the free end parts 13 of the tabs are positioned and held between the parts 12 and the body part of the sheet, thereby effectually concealing and protecting the said free ends. This construction provides two tabs, one at each edge of the folded sheet, which are of multi-ply thickness and with closed edges 10 and 11, said tabs adapted for engagement by the discharging blade of the cabinet, either tab part being in the path of movement of the blade according to the position of the sheets within the cabinet.

In Fig. 2 I have shown the preferred embodiment of this folded sheet wherein the wherein both tabs are folded to the same side of the body of the sheet, thus making the sheet reversible in a horizontal plane to bring either tab into the path of the discharging blade as desired. f

Sheets folded in the manner above described not only present a uniform compact appearance but will stack up with stability to form a package the center of gravity of which passes through the body part 7 preferably between the tab portions and maintains the proper operative relation between the elements of the package. While I have referred to the reversibility of the package in use, especially with regard to its position within the cabinet, yet I do not wish to restrict myself in any way to this particular feature although I consider it the preferred manner of assembling the folded sheets to constitute the package.

It will now be apparent that I have provided a folded sheet having tabs of multiple thickness parallel to the body portion and oppositely directed, each of which has an end formed by a folded part of the sheet,

for the purpose of providing multi-ply tabs having relatively strong edges, adapted to be engaged by the discharging blade. The action of this blade, as will be understood, is to push or move the-tab toward the discharging slot to force the same therethrough so that it comes into a position where it may be grasped and the entire sheet readily Withdrawn.

Having now described my invention, what I claim'as new and desire to protect by Letters Patent is 1. A paper towel consisting of a sheet folded upon itself to form a multi-ply body part, said body part being again folded upon two parallel lines to form tab parts extending toward each other, said tab parts being respectively folded upon themselves along lines parallel to the body folds to bring the .cspective ends of the tabs between a part of the tab and the body of the sheet, whereby two oppositely directed tabs of multiple thickness and closed folded edges are provided and having their free ends concealed and protected.

2. A paper towel consisting of a sheet having a body part folded upon two parallel lines to form tab parts extending parallel to the body part and toward each other, said tab parts being reversely folded upon themselves along parallel lines to position the respective free end parts of the tabs between a part of the tab and the body part of the sheet and provide two oppositely directed tabs of multiple thickness having free end portions concealed and protected.

3. A paper towel consisting of a sheet folded upon two parallel lines to form a middle body part of restricted width, the folded parts at opposite sides of the body part being positioned parallel to the body part and at opposite sides thereof, said folded tab parts being again respectively folded upon themselves on lines parallel to the first mentioned folds to position the respective free ends of the tabs between a part of the 'tab and the body part of the sheet whereby a tabof multiple thickness is provided at each side of the body of the slice, having its ends concealed and protected.

4. A paper towel consisting of a shoe folded to provide a middle body portion and two tab portions at each side thereof, said tab portions oppositely directed and each consisting of a multi-ply portion directed toward the other and each of said multi-ply tabs having a free tab portion directed away from the corresponding portion of the other tab, said tabs providing shielded free end portions and folded exposed edge portions.

In testimony of which invention, I hereunto set my hand.

PHILIP D. PARSONS.

Witnesses:

C. H. WISSMANN, FLORENCE DEACON. 

